Pluto Press imprint: 440 books
by John A. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2002
The uneasy crossover between art and celebrity has been much discussed in recent years. Artists as celebrities is hardly a new phenomenon, but the growing cult of celebrity in contemporary culture is throwing up paradoxical ideas about the contradictions between 'high' art and mass appeal and blurring...
Complacency and Collusion
A Critical Introduction to Business and Financial Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The growing passivity and changing bias of Western journalists is widely acknowledged. Journalism is increasingly hollowed out by writers who are no longer gathering news but rather churning out unsourced information, PR texts and snippets found online. Behind this dubious practice is an increasingly...
Don't Mention the War
Northern Ireland, Propaganda and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1994
The media has told us for over twenty five years that the conflict in Northern Ireland is irrational and has ‘no objective social basis’. The role of the British Army in Northern Ireland is still described as a peacekeeping one: the cause of the ‘troubles’ as ‘terrorism’. Yet, even in...
Travels in the Skin Trade
Tourism and the Sex Industry
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2001
Through the words of sex workers and their clients, Jeremy Seabrook reconsiders the popular conception of sex tourism in Asia. Through its examination of the many paradoxes surrounding this controversial subject, Travels in the Skin Trade also sheds new light on the wider and problematic relationship...
Broken Promises, Broken Dreams
Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
The tragedies of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians are never far from the pages of the mainstream press. Yet it is rare to hear about the reality of life on the ground -- and it is rarer still when these voices belong to women. *BR**BR*This book records the journey of a Jewish American...
The End of Tolerance
Racism in 21st Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
Is Britain becoming a more racist society? Arun Kundnani looks behind the media hysteria to show how multicultural Britain is under attack by government policies and vitriolic press campaigns that play upon fear and encourage racism.*BR**BR*Exacerbated by the attacks of 9/11 and 7/7, Kundnani argues...
Propaganda Blitz
How the Corporate Media Distort Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Do you trust the liberal media? While the tabloid and right-wing press - the Sun, The Times, the Mail and the Express - are constantly criticised for dangerous bias, outlets like the BBC and the Guardian are trusted by their readers to report in the interests of the public. However, the reality is...
Network Culture
Politics For the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2004
In an age of email lists and discussion groups, e-zines and weblogs, bringing together users, consumers, workers and activists from around the globe, what kinds of political subjectivity are emerging? What kinds of politics become possible in a time of information overload and media saturation? What...
Murdoch's Politics
How One Man's Thirst For Wealth and Power Shapes our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is the most powerful media organisation in the world. Murdoch's commercial success is obvious, but less well understood is his successful pursuit of political goals, using News Corporation as his vehicle.*BR**BR*In Murdoch's Politics David McKnight tracks Murdoch's...
Hobsbawm
History and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
From the early rumblings of the French revolution, at the start of the long nineteenth century, to the fall of the Soviet bloc at the close of the short twentieth century, historian Eric Hobsbawm is possibly the foremost chronicler of the modern age.*BR**BR*Hobsbawm was a chronicler of revolutions,...
Fighting Corporate Abuse
Beyond Predatory Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
Fighting Corporate Abuse demonstrates, through compelling and revelatory analysis, the legislation and regulation needed to deal with the abuses in the corporate sector that have been revealed in recent years. It highlights the more general contribution of company law and practice to the current crisis...
BRICS
An Anti-Capitalist Critique
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
One of the defining features of the global economy is the rise of the BRICS - a bloc of emerging economies, comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. These nations seem to be growing at a much faster rate than the developed nations of the Eurozone and North America. Will the BRICS help...
Flammable Societies
Studies on the Socio-economics of Oil and Gas
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The impact of the oil and gas industry – paradoxically seen both as a blessing and a curse on socio-economic development – is a question at the heart of the comparative studies in this volume stretching from Northern Europe to the Caucasus, the Gulf of Guinea to Latin America. *BR**BR*Britain’s...
The Capitalist University
The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Can the ivory tower rise above capitalism? Or are the humanities and social sciences merely handmaids to the American imperial order? The Capitalist University surveys the history of higher education in the United States over the last century, revealing how campuses and classrooms have become battlegrounds...